Blenheim Orange apple trees

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• Picking season: Late
• Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
• Flowering group: 3
• Awards: RHS AGM (current) 1993

Blenheim Orange is a classic English dual-purpose apple, useful for dessert and culinary purposes.

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Blenheim Orange apple trees for sale

Choose a size - pot-grown

All our pot-grown trees are grown for us to our specification by the Frank P Matthews nursery.

• PG12-year bush-trained 12L pot-grown tree, M26 rootstock£57.50
  Medium tree (2m-3m after 10 years)
  

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• PG22-year bush-trained 12L pot-grown tree, MM106 rootstock£57.50
  Large tree (3m-5m after 10 years)
  

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• PG3Premium half-standard 12L pot-grown tree, MM106 rootstock£62.50< 5 in stock
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Choose a size - bare-root

• BR11-year bare-root tree,M26 rootstock£34.95
  Medium tree (2m-3m after 10 years)
  

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• BR22-year bush-trained bare-root tree,M26 rootstock£43.00
  Medium tree (2m-3m after 10 years)
  

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• BR32-year bare-root tree,M116 rootstock£43.00
  Medium tree (2m-3m after 10 years)
  

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• BR41-year bare-root tree,MM106 rootstock£34.95
  Large tree (3m-5m after 10 years)
  

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• BR52-year bush-trained bare-root tree,MM106 rootstock£43.00
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• BR62-year bare-root tree,MM106 rootstock£43.50
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• BR71-year bare-root tree,M25 rootstock£35.75
  Very large tree (4m-7m after 10 years)
  

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• BR82-year (1.75m) bare-root tree,M25 rootstock£46.95
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Tree specification

Photos of trees as supplied | Tree sizes and forms

Next deliveries

Order now for delivery from week commencing 18th May.

Delivery charges

Delivery for a single tree starts at £9.95, it is calculated based on your postcode.

All about Blenheim Orange apple trees

Blenheim Orange is a popular large English heritage apple variety, widely grown in gardens. It has the characteristic orange flush which is often associated with English apples. Although it can be eaten fresh, it is best considered a culinary apple, and it cooks to a stiff puree.

Blenheim Orange makes a good feature tree in a larger garden.

Growing and Training

Blenheim Orange produces a large vigorous tree, with unusually dense wood.

It is a triploid variety so will not pollinate other apple trees, but is readily pollinated by many other apple varieties.

This is slow-growing long-lived variety which takes a while to get into its stride. Victorian author Hogg, writing at the end of the 19th century noted that Blenheim Orange "... when it becomes a little aged, it bears regular and abundant crops".

History

Blenheim Orange is believed to date back to early 18th century. It was discovered at Woodstock in Oxfordshire, and named after the nearby Blenheim Palace. The parentage is unknown.

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Unlike many garden centres and online retailers, the vast majority of our fruit trees are grown in the UK. Find out more.

All our trees are certified under the Plant Healthy scheme, supervised by the Plant Health Alliance. Other stakeholders include Defra and the RHS. Find out more.

Guaranteed fruit trees

When you buy your fruit tree from Orange Pippin Fruit Trees we guarantee it for the first season in your garden while it gets established. If it doesn't grow successfully, we'll either replace it the following season or offer a refund, subject to some conditions. Find out more.

More about apple trees

There is no doubt that the famous Bramley's Seedling still rightly reigns supreme. Characterised by its copious rich juicy acidity it quickly renders to stiff puree in the kitchen, and is the benchmark for English apple cookery. However we have noticed a real resurgence in interest in the humble cooking apple in recent years, with cooks looking beyond Bramley for other qualities and textures.

Look out for cooking apples which ripen earlier than Bramley, such as Grenadier or Keswick Codlin.

Scotland also has a strong tradition of cooking apples - Galloway Pippin, Scotch Bridget, Scotch Dumpling for example. This also illustrates another useful quality of cooking apples - they can be productive even in climates where grey skies and rain are more frequent than sun and blue skies.

Many cooking apples are also great for juicing, especially if you like your apple juice to have a bit of an acidic kick.